A presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint is made up of various slides. A slide may be added or created in a PowerPoint presentation in a number of ways. Slides may be deleted as well as moved around after being added.
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Focus on the text below to get instructions on how to add, move, and remove slides in PowerPoint.
Add a new slide
The procedures shown below can be used to add a fresh, blank slide to a presentation.
Left-click where you wish to place a slide in the slide preview window on the left, in the space between two slides.
Select New Slide from the PowerPoint Ribbon’s Home or Insert tab.
Choose the type of slide to insert from the drop-down option that appears. Where you clicked in step 1 above is where the new slide will be added to the presentation.
Paste existing slides into a new one
Follow the instructions below to add a duplicate of an existing slide to a presentation.
Locate the existing slide you wish to copy in the slide preview box on the left.
Right-click that slide with your mouse, and then click Copy from the pop-up menu.
Choose the location where the duplicated slide should be added. To paste the copied slide, right-click the slide just above the one you wish to.
To paste the slide, select the center paste option icon in the pop-up menu’s Paste Options section. The center paste option replicates the formatting of the copied slide on the new slide.
The procedures listed below can be used to add a slide from another presentation.
Left-click where you wish to place a slide in the slide preview window on the left, in the space between two slides.
Select New Slide from the PowerPoint Ribbon’s Home or Insert tab.
Click the Reuse Slides option at the bottom of the drop-down menu that appears.
Click the Browse button, then choose Browse File in the Reuse Slides box that appears on the right.
Click the Open button after locating the PowerPoint presentation file that contains the slide you wish to include in the presentation that is currently open.
Below the Browse button is a preview of slides. To add a slide to the presentation that is currently open, left-click the slide. The selected slide’s text will be placed into a new slide that will be added to the presentation.
Right-click the chosen slide and choose Apply Theme to Selected Slides to extend the formatting of the selected slide to the newly added slide.
Moving a slide
The procedures listed below can be used to reposition a slide inside a PowerPoint presentation.
Launch the PowerPoint presentation.
Locate the slide you wish to move in the left preview window.
Slides may be moved by holding down the left mouse button and dragging them up or down.
When you have moved the slide to its new position, let go of the left mouse button.
Deleting a slide
The procedures listed below can be used to remove a slide from a PowerPoint presentation.
Launch the PowerPoint presentation.
Select the slide you wish to erase by clicking it in the left preview window.
